Today is an important day in the American holiday calendar marking the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought the forces of racism, saying, "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
Sadly the forces of hatred ended the peacemaker's life in Memphis. I continue to uphold his path of pacifism, however the hatred burns brighter than a KKK cross in Trump's America.
Yesterday I was speaking with a white friend and said, "I have the tomorrow off."
I
don't have a job, but I'm taking it off anyway. "What? National N----- Day?"
"What did you just say? You're an Arab and none of you are white." I malquoted Dennis Hopper's infamous line from TRUE ROMANCE 1993.
"Sorry." Alaska knew that my nickname in the last century was 'Mad Dog'. I stood our ground against all.
"You better be." For generations racism has been taught to us whites at an early age and this morning a rich white woman said at the grocery on Myrtle Avenue, "I hate the city. It's so dirty."
She wasn't speaking about the litter, but the filth of the races.
"Just as filthy as you." I cut in front of her and paid for berries. $1. Money is all the rich have over the rest of us and I try not to hate them or white people, but there's nothing wrong with taking off the rich. They got their money the old-fashioned way. They stole it from us.
Long live the man of peace.
Martin Luther King Jr. is better company than the filthy rich.
He gave his all for the world.
Pacem in Terris___
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